(1) "County" means the territory comprising a county of this
state as it existed on January 1, 2010, notwithstanding any
boundary changes made subsequent thereto;

(2) "Block" and "VTD" (voting district) mean those geographic
areas as defined by the Bureau of the Census of the United States
Department of Commerce for the taking of the 2010 census of
population and described on census maps prepared by the Bureau of
the Census. The maps are, at the time of the reenactment of this
section in the year 2011, maintained by the Bureau of the Census
and filed in Redistricting Office of the Joint Committee on
Government and Finance.

(b) The House of Delegates is composed of one hundred members
elected from the delegate districts as described in subsection (c)
of this section. Each delegate district is entitled to
representation as described in this subsection:

(1) District one is entitled to two delegates;

(2) District two is entitled to one delegate;

(3) District three is entitled to two delegates;

(4) District four is entitled to two delegates;

(5) District five is entitled to one delegate;

(6) District six is entitled to one delegate;

(7) District seven is entitled to one delegate;

(8) District eight is entitled to one delegate;

(9) District nine is entitled to one delegate;

(10) District ten is entitled to three delegates;

(11) District eleven is entitled to one delegate;

(12) District twelve is entitled to one delegate;

(13) District thirteen is entitled to two delegates;

(14) District fourteen is entitled to one delegate;

(15) District fifteen is entitled to one delegate;

(16) District sixteen is entitled to three delegates;

(17) District seventeen is entitled to two delegates;

(18) District eighteen is entitled to one delegate;

(19) District nineteen is entitled to two delegates;

(20) District twenty is entitled to one delegate;

(21) District twenty-one is entitled to one delegate;

(22) District twenty-two is entitled to two delegates;

(23) District twenty-three is entitled to one delegate;

(24) District twenty-four is entitled to two delegates;

(25) District twenty-five is entitled to one delegate;

(26) District twenty-six is entitled to one delegate;

(27) District twenty-seven is entitled to three delegates;

(28) District twenty-eight is entitled to two delegates; not
more than one delegate may be nominated, elected or appointed who
is a resident of any single county within the district;

(d) Regardless of the changes in delegate district boundaries
made by the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, the
delegates elected at the general election held in the year 2010
continue to hold their offices as members of the House of Delegates
for the term, and as representatives of the county or delegate
district, for which each was elected. Any appointment made to fill
a vacancy in the office of a member of the House of Delegates shall
be made for the remainder of the term, and as representative of the
county or delegate district, for which the vacating delegate was
elected or appointed.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2016 Regular Session
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